Honestly, I appreciate Jeremy Corbyn and his political integrity a lot, but let's be honest, he was in charge of the Labour Party for four years, and instead of steering it out of the Blair epoch once and for all he ended up fumbling it and losing it all to an embarrassment like ~~Morgan […]

No, no, no 🤢

@Tallish_Tom I dunno if you're library offers this but mine gives me access to the digital papers via Pressreader so I can still read it anyway, even though they're being annoying.

So, #blueorigin lunched New Glenn and landed the first stage. and no one really noticed. I bet Jeff hates Elon SO MUCH! #oligarchs

Bye bye The Guardian, It wasn't the demand for "money or personal data", I already donated (stopped now); it was the totally cack handed and incompetent way you asked for "money or personal data". #theguardian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-gUC0z-VFo Brutal takedown of how the focus on shareholder value is crippling key US industries, making them operate as if they were staving off bankruptcy whilst (so that) the stock value skyrockets. US defence contractors are reducing capacity and laying off […]

Our friends at @bonfire need support. Did you already make a little contribution to their crowd funding campaign? https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community Bonfire is building a modular toolkit for communities with the decentralised, commons patterns at heart. Their suite helps […]

Things are getting better on the clean energy front? Read about the good news from @[email protected]. And, yes, we’re aware there’s more work to do: https://flip.it/BW9Gp6 #science #climatechange #globalwarming #meteorology #climatescience

Good to see someone tackling rent-seeking profits. "But let's remember again how Chinese policy makers see these data. The supply chains are getting stronger and more efficient, businesses expect their costs to be falling over time, & they're making plans accordingly. So lower corporate profits […]

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/11/12/crocodile-economics-comes-to-africa-trade-solar-and-the-new-energy-map/ Africa may well completely skip heavy FF dependence while still growing its GDP with, initially, a massive build out of local solar grids and then continental scale integration with a […]

https://chinaglobalsouth.com/podcasts/global-tech-wars-james-kynge-china-manufacturing/ China is not "passing on" the shit manufacturing jobs like other developing/developed countries have before. It's keeping to pull up its remaining poor agricultural population and/or massively automating […]

https://electrek.co/2025/11/12/peak-energy-500m-deal-will-deploy-the-worlds-largest-sodium-ion-battery-system/ Peak energy have some great tech and a great vision of BESS as cheap, super safe, silent, "install and forget" technology.

"China has disclosed critical specifications for a nuclear-powered ‘world’s largest’ cargo ship under development, revealing it will be driven by a groundbreaking thorium-based molten salt reactor (TMSR) with a thermal output of 200 megawatts. The vessel is designed to carry 14,000 standard […]

"After nearly 15 years of rigorous research, China has finally cracked a way to access almost an unlimited amount of nuclear energy through converting thorium to uranium with their experimental salt reactor, reports said this week." […]

Ok so for US AI. At some point people realise it's not good enough to replace a million us jobs so the wheels come off. The MLM scheme runs out of suckers and the wheels come off. The Chinese models limit the potential income to 0.1 - 1% of the claims, and […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

I have backed this. And used it as an opportunity to try my first quote toot 🙂. Bonfire is a really exciting toolkit with a great foundation.

I just backed the #crowdfunding campaign for @bonfire! https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community It's surprising that there are currently less than 90 backers I'm really looking forward to their #OpenScience flavor and hope that it will find wide adoption and will make it easier […]

"On Monday, André Corrêa do Lago, the Brazilian diplomat and president of Cop30, praised Chinese progress on green technologies. 'China is coming up with solutions that are for everyone, not just China,' he said, adding that rich countries had lost their enthusiasm for tackling the climate […]

BREAKING NEWS: BBC director general Tim Davie resigns over impartiality concerns, along with his head of news. This is about the years and years of platforming Nigel Farage while burying any left wing voices, right? Or its propagandistic coverage of Israel and its genocide? Or maybe the […]

Interesting real world data, on 1GW firm power supply. Masdar UAE - solar + batteries. Cost USD 6 billion. Construction time 2 years (caveat, not sure if this is a tranche or all of it) Hualong One Cost USD 3 billion (from actuals) construction time 5 years So purely on construction cost […]

Caught on the back yard security cam being cute. #dog #DogsOfMastodon #corgi

this week's fediverse news is about the launch of Bonfire, a new modular social platform that focuses on communities, with a crowdfunding campaign to grow further and mastodon has officially launched quote posts, and fixed their missing replies problem connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

We're very excited to be a 'Common Sponsor' of the Bonfire project 🔥 Bonfire offers and incredible opportunity for the Open Social Web. It will be great to see their work with various organisations, including us, come to life. #SocialMedia #Bonfire

If you'd like to donate to Bonfire yourself, they've just launched a fundraiser here 👉 www.indiegogo.com/projects/bon...

Hot take. The western nuclear industry was actually killed by Friedman, Reagan, Thatcher, and Neo Liberal values. The antinuclear campaigners just got lucky. #nuclear #neoliberalism

Germany just committed another act of national self harm by demolishing the cooling towers at the Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Station which was forced to shutdown under the Atomausstieg (Nuclear Phase-out) policy. A new report by WePlanet and the […] [Original post on greennuclear.online]

https://www.ess-news.com/2025/10/31/stable-not-volatile-how-battery-storage-shapes-electricity-prices/ Turns out batteries are quite useful. #renewables #batteries #BESS

i hadn't "taken poison on purpose and just full on vibe coded as a bit" in awhile, so i gave it a whirl trying to mimic the manic intensity of some of the PRs i see nowadays. i guess i didn't really appreciate how anyone who talks about using LLMs for code is eliding the fact that they are […]

I don't agree with their use of the word #solarpunk , but this is a really interesting #solar analysis im #africa: https://climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening "This is the template for building infrastructure in the 21st century. Not government-led. Not centralized […]

The World Bank’s latest data shows a quiet global triumph: 93% of people aged 15 to 24 can now read and write, up from 87% in 2000. In many regions, including East Asia, Latin America, and Central Europe, youth literacy has reached or neared universal levels, marking one of the most successful […]

@TallSimon Hi, I feel a vague cameraderie of names 🙂 Also, I blew glass once and loved it. I am jealous 🙂

"Sweden is one of the leading countries when it comes to managing nuclear waste. While many countries still are seeking long-term solutions Sweden through Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB) is showing the way. The company has developed a method for safely storing spent […]

I think these numbers are approximately correct: Generation additions 2025 Source TWh Solar 436 Wind 254 Nuclear 21 Total 711 Demand growth 2025 Growth 684 FF saving 27 So that's about 3-6 coal plants that can be closed (they average 50% capacity) Clean power deployment is growing faster than […]

Cheney out, Mamdani in. Good day overall. 👍

Europe’s EV surge rolls on — Sept 2025 was the 2nd-best month ever with ~399k plug-ins sold, +11% YoY (21% BEV + 11% PHEV), only behind Dec 2022’s record. Fossil fuels keep fading fast — petrol -8% YoY & diesel -16% YoY, now under a third of new cars sold. #EV #Europe #EnergyTransition #Lithium #LFP

lol eat shit Cuomo

The #alectoPause is doing my head in. I remember geeking out about expectations of #AlectoTheNinth with fellow fans at https://www.cymerafestival.co.uk in 2024 expecting it in 6 months or so. How are other #LockedTomb#alectotheninth#alectopauseolk coping? (And I hope Tamsyn Muir is OK, I don't write but I imagine […]

Somehow managed to miss this, free public transport trial in Glasgow next year https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25583861.free-public-transport-glasgow-pilot-begin-2026/

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-accused-threats-eu-diplomats-bid-to-kill-green-shipping-rules-negotiations-personal-intimidation/ > “Our negotiators had never seen this before in any international talks,” said one European official, who had spoken to negotiators. “People being summoned to […]

China’s EV export engine is in overdrive — nearly 1M NEVs shipped Jan–Sep 2025. Europe leads, Latin America explodes (+148%), & Asia-Pac surges. China isn’t merely exporting electric cars — it’s exporting the future of mobility. One shipload at a time, scaling up fast.. 🌏 #ChinaEV #NEV #Lithium #LFP

I moved Mastodon instance a couple of days ago and immediately learned that there's a #Monsterdon hashtag for a monster movie (B or worse, usually) live watch with comments at 6 pm PST every Sunday! This Sunday: CRITTERS 3 (1991). Leonardo DiCaprio's first movie. #monsters

Silos for Sunshine electrotechrevolution.substack.com/p/silos-for-su… #batteries #solar #energy

Masdar invited the media out to Abu Dhabi for the official groundbreaking for their new 24/7 solar and battery energy production system: ‘It aims to realize the full potential of an integrated solar and battery system, demonstrating the capability to not only produce and store power but to […]

(30 Oct) The EPA Let Companies Estimate Their Own Pollution Levels. We Discovered Real Emissions Are Far Worse. https://s.faithcollapsing.com/uunnk Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/q2cz3 #environment #pollution

(29 Oct) Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution […] [Original post on faithcollapsing.com]

Interesting that Meta has bought 3GW of solar this year. Trump won't like it, they won't get any tax breaks, they will probably have to import quite a lot of them, and pay tarrifs; and it is _still_ the most effective way of getting the power they need. I expect they are buying a shit ton of […]

"Hopefully, affordability hawks on both sides of the aisle will be able to put aside their fixations on particular energy sources and embrace a more holistic understanding of electricity markets. That would be a boon for both consumers and the country." […]

Batteries at scale are changing a lot of assumptions. https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/silos-for-sunshine-weve-mastered-harvesting-the-sun-but-storage-is-the-gamechanger/ #batteries #bess #renewables #energy #energytransition